22News / WWLP – “Governor Deval Patrick Thursday afternoon announced plans for a world-class, high performance computing center for the City of Holyoke. The computing center would be a joint effort between a number of schools including UMass.”
Commonwealth of Massachusetts – “Governor Deval Patrick, MIT President Dr. Susan Hockfield, UMASS President Dr. Jack M. Wilson, Boston University President Dr. Robert Brown, Joseph M. Tucci, Chairman, President & CEO of EMC, and John T. Chambers, Chairman & CEO of Cisco Systems today announced a collaboration that will lead to the development of a world-class, high-performance computing center in Holyoke, and a statewide collaborative research program. The center will be powered by a combination of green and cost-competitive energy, making it a cost-effective and environmentally sound facility.”
Environmental Leader – “The race for the biggest, best and greenest data center is on, with EMC, Cisco, MIT and the University of Massachussetts potentially partnering on a new $100 million data center in Holyoke, Mass., reports the Republican.”
MIT news – “What began earlier this decade as an effort to better coordinate information technology at MIT has blossomed into a major drive between the Institute, the state of Massachusetts and several key players in industry and academia to design and build an environmentally friendly high-performance computing center in western Massachusetts, one capable of boosting the state’s innovation economy.”
Local Buzz / MassLive – “Back in October, Brendan Ciecko — the lanky, then-20-year-old web entrepreneur who works out of Holyoke — took a call from the Governor’s office. They wanted him to come to a “Technology Roundtable” at MIT. The other participants: the presidents of MIT and UMass, and the CEOs of Cisco, Akamai, EMC, Accenture, and iRobot.”
ABC40 / FOX6 Springfield – “Gov. Deval Patrick along with the presidents of MIT, UMass, Boston University, and the CEOs and Chairmen of EMC and Cisco Systems came together today to announce the creation of a first class computing center and research program in Holyoke.”
Local Buzz / MassLive – “Today, MIT President Susan Hockfield, UMass President Jack M. Wilson, and Holyoke Mayor Mike Sullivan signed a letter of intent to work collaboratively over the next 120 days to develop a plan for building and opening the computing center. The Patrick administration, Boston University, EMC, and Cisco are also involved in the partnership to research and develop the center.”
Boston Globe – “The Western Massachusetts city of Holyoke has been selected to host an ambitious, “green,” high performance computing center, according to plans that will be disclosed tomorrow by the state and a consortium of universities and technology companies.”
Xconomy – “A university, industry, and Massachusetts government coalition is set to announce a major initiative in high performance computing later this week, Xconomy has learned. Official sources are guarded, and specifics were hard to come by tonight. But a new center for high performance computing is apparently being planned for Holyoke, MA. A public event is planned for Thursday, with representatives of the state of Massachusetts, MIT, EMC, and a variety of others due to be on hand, according to our sources.”
